Rhetorical Speculations

The Future of Rhetoric, Writing, and Technology

Scott Sundvall

• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781607328315
• Topic: Sprachen & Linguistik
• Subtopic: Sprachwissenschaft

The future of writing studies is fundamentally tied to advancing technological development—writing cannot be done without a technology and different technologies mediate writing differently. In Rhetorical Speculations, contributors engage with emerging technologies of composition through "speculative modeling" as a strategy for anticipatory, futural thinking for rhetoric and writing studies.Rhetoric and writing studies often engages technological shifts reactively, after the production and reception of rhetoric and writing has changed. This collection allows rhetoric and writing scholars to explore modes of critical speculation into the transformative effect of emerging technologies, particularly as a means to speculate on future shifts in the intellectual, pedagogical, and institutional frameworks of the field. In doing so, the project repositions rhetoric and writing scholars as proprietors of our technological future to come rather than as secondary receivers, critics, and adjusters of the technological present.Major and emerging voices in the field offer a range of styles that include pragmatic, technical, and philosophical approaches to the issue of speculative rhetoric, exploring what new media/writing studies could be—theoretically, pedagogically, and institutionally—as future technologies begin to impinge on the work of writing. Rhetorical Speculations is at the cutting edge of the subject of futures thinking and will have broad appeal to scholars of rhetoric, literacy, futures studies, and material and popular culture. Contributors:
Bahareh Brittany Alaei, Sarah J. Arroyo, Kristine L. Blair, Geoffrey V. Carter, Sid Dobrin, Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Steve Holmes, Kyle Jensen, Halcyon Lawrence, Alexander Monea, Sean Morey, Alex Reid, Jeff Rice, Gregory L. Ulmer, Anna Worm

Index

4Chan, 290, 294

abduction, 91; hypothesis of, 91, 96, 102; speculative abduction, 12, 89–96, 99, 102

actors, 181; and actor-network theory, 72, 74, 79, 84, 143, 180; and affect, 13; and interfaces, 138, 144, 146; and narrative, 138–139, 141–142, 144–145; and networks, 133, 136, 142–146, 179–180; nonhuman, 70–71, 163, 178–179, 183–185, 242; rhetorical, 18, 34

actor-network theory. See actors: and actor-network theory

actuality, 13, 50, 262

advertisement, 70, 122, 18

aesthetics: and electracy, 14, 16–17, 118; and gender, 118; and style, 178

affect: affective disclosure, 113; and electracy, 17, 284; and embodiment, 11, 285; as energy, 62; and games, 14; and humor, 287; and interfaces, 13, 132–133, 136, 145; and rhetoric, 10; and style, 14; and technology, 84; and trauma, 285

agency, 34, 40, 42, 74–75, 79–81, 84, 102–103, 262; and games, 187, 191; of the nonhuman, 53, 55, 57, 70, 85; rhetorical, 13, 119, 176, 219

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